What Every Father Needs to Hear

The second truth ...

2. The holy love of our heavenly Father through the suffering of His one and only Son will bring salvation to broken daddies and their broken children. Thus, this is a day of resurrection hope.

David's cry ended as, "My son, my son"; but Jesus' cry was, "My God! My God! Why have You forsaken Me?"

The cry of David was the cry of a broken daddy.

The cry of Jesus was the cry of a forsaken Son.

The cry of David came from failure to follow God's plan for living.

The cry of Jesus came from fulfillment of God's plan of salvation for those who have failed.

The cry of David brought only more remorse.

The cry of Jesus on the cross brings miraculous resurrection.

There is not a case that ever comes before me that causes me to say, "Well, no hope here. No way to mend this. No answers." No, God in Christ is a Redeemer. He came to bind up wounds and set captives free. Paul said of His saving work:

Broken daddies -- from Adam, whose sinful son Cain murdered Abel; to Abraham whose sinful unbelief led to seeing his firstborn son, Ishmael, led away with his mother from the camp; to David, pale in comparison with the brokenness that had to occur as a result of a covenant between God the Father and God the Son -- for it was ordained before the foundation of the world that God the Son would leave His Father's glorious presence in heaven to come to live among His created beings -- to be rejected by the very ones He came to save and abandoned on the cross with all of the wrath of God coming down on His pure soul.

Broken daddies and fractured families are healed by the brokenness of God the Father sending His Son to be forsaken on Calvary's Cross for you. Not only that, but in Jesus' being forsaken by His Father on the cross, He was sent to the grave. God did not leave Him there; He raised Him up on the third day. Forevermore, praise the name of Jesus; there is hope and renewal for broken daddies and fractured families through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

"For our sakes, He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Cor. 5:21).

There is reconciliation for estranged families, renewal and hope for remorseful fathers and mothers, restoration for prodigal children, through Jesus Christ:

"For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. Now He has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in His sight, without blemish and free from accusation, if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant (Col. 1:19-23).